Every Ruby object is an instance of a singleton class that inherits from its declared class. # o is an instance of its singleton class, # which inherit

Every Ruby object is an instance of a singleton class that inherits from its declared class. # o is an instance of its singleton class, # which inherits from Object o = Object.new It is like saying: class Object def self.new(*args, &block) # Class.new(Object) creates an anonymous # subclass of Object Class.new(Object).new(*args, &block) end end except with built-in language support. Instead of having to do this manually, every object gets a singleton.